Critical Encounters: Poverty & Privilege

Where the Conscience Meets the Checkbook

Mon, 12 May 2008 04:00 GMT

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

State Programs Add Safety Net for the Poorest

Mon, 12 May 2008 02:21 GMT

Arkansas and at least a dozen other states are giving monthly payments to thousands of low-income workers in hopes of keeping their residents off the welfare rolls.

Misunderstandings plague African adoptions

Sun, 11 May 2008 07:00 GMT

Traditional ways of helping poor children clash with Western concepts.

The offer of a foreign education for her beloved youngest son seemed like a dream come true for Elizabeth Rioba. But the Kenyan mother says a family member tricked her into signing adoption papers, and now it's been five years since she's seen her boy.

School districts start to face sanctions under landmark law

Sat, 10 May 2008 16:45 GMT

THERMAL, Calif. (AP) -- At Las Palmitas Elementary School, nestled between rundown homes and fields of grapes, peppers and dates in Southern California, 99 percent of students live in poverty and fewer than 20 percent speak English fluently....

Misunderstandings plague African adoptions

Sat, 10 May 2008 14:41 GMT